Cash-register.



No. 67I,950. Patented Apr. l6, l90i. T. CABNEY.

CASH REGISTER.

- (Application filed Mar. 31, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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THOMAS OARNEY, OF DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE NATIONAL ZASH REGISTERCOMPANY, OF JERSEY CITY, NE\V JERSEY.

CASH-REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 671,950, dated April16, 1901.

Application filed March 31, 1900, Serial No. 10,927. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: horizontal portion of the channel 6 andabuts Be it known that I, THOMAS OARNEY, acitiagainst the outermost disk7 in that portion zen of the United States, residing at Dayton, of saidchannel. This slide is formed with a in the county of Montgomery andState of vertical shoulder 10, which projects through 5 Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful a slot 11 in the top of the angularframe into Improvements in Cash-Registers, of which I the path of a nose12, formed on a plate 13, declare the following to be a full, clear, andwhich is secured to the bottom of the drawer, exact description. wherebywhen the latter is closed said nose This invention relates toimprovements in will engage the shoulder and force the slide IOcash-registers, and has more particular rela- 9 rearward. This rearwardmovement of the tion to improvements in registers of the type said slidecauses the disks 7 to roll backward shown and described in my Patent No.536,015, and upward through the channel 6. A slide granted March 19,1895. 14 is mounted in the upper end of the ver The object of theinvention is to provide tical portion of the channel 6 and rests with 15improved means for reducing the amount of its lower rounded end upon theuppermost power necessary to operate the keys of the disk 7. This slide,besides lying in the chanmachine. nel 6, also projects forward at itsupper end In the appended drawings, forming part of into a slot 15,formed in the upper portion of this specification, Figure 1 represents acenthe casing 5. The slide is further provided 20 tral vertical sectionthrough a machine of the with a vertical hook extension 16 and a lattypementioned with my invention applied erally projecting stud 17, whichlatter exthereto, and 2 represents an enlarged detends through avertical slot 18, formed in the tail vertical section through the springdevice cap-plate S, and forms an attaching means for for returning thekey-coupler and keys to norone end of a coil-spring 19. This spring ex-2 5 mal position. tends down along the cap-plate and passes In the saiddrawings, 1 represents the frame over a sleeve 20 and forward to a rigidstud of the machine; 2, the operating-keys; 3, the 21, to which it issecured. key-coupler, and 4 the cash-drawer. It will be observed fromthe above descrip- The keys, key-coupler, indicators, and regtion thatwhen the cash-drawer is closed the 30 istering mechanism aresubstantially of the slide 1 L will be elevated and held in thiseleconstruction described in said patent with the vated position as longas the drawer remains 8o exception that the returnin g-sprin gs fordrawclosed. The aforesaid hook extension 16 proing the key-coupler downafter it has been jects over the pivoted key-coupler 3, to whichelevated are omitted, and the keys are thus the operated keys becomelocked, so that 5 operated and elevate the coupler without havwhen theslide 14 is drawn down by the spring ing to overcome the tension of anyreturningupon the opening of the cash-drawer the hook springs. As thework of putting springs unwill draw the said key-coupler down also andder tension to return the key-coupler must be return the keys which havebeen operated to performed by some movable part of the manormalposition. It will further be seen that 40 chine, I provide devices asfollows for throwwhile the spring returns the key-coupler and ing thework upon the cash-drawer: Just bekeys to normal position its tension isnot ex- 0 low and to the rear of the operating-keys I erted upon thekeys while they are being demount an angular frame 5, having a curvedpressed, and they are therefore relieved of channel 6 formed therein forthe reception this portion of the load, which is thrown upon 45 of aplurality of steel operating-disks 7, said the cash-drawer.

disks lying edge to edge and being held in It will of course beunderstood that when a position in said channel by a cap-plate 8 apkeyis depressed it releases the cash-drawer plied over the open side of thesame. A slide substantially as described in said patent, and 9 ismounted in the forward end of the lower thus leaves the slides 9 and 14and the disks 7 free to be operated by the coil-spring, which haspreviously been put under tension by the closing of the drawer.

Having thus described my invention, what I desire to secure by LettersPatent is 1. In a cash-register, the combination with a series of keys,of a frame arranged to be elevated by the operation of any of said keys,a slide carrying a hook adapted to engage said frame and draw it down, acash-drawer, and a spring connected to said slide and arranged to be putunder tension by the movements of said drawer.

2. In a cash-register, the combination with a series of keys, of a framecommon to said keys, a cash-drawer, a frame having a channel or runway,a plurality of rolling devices mounted in said channel, slides mountedin said channel and arranged respectively to engage the drawer and thecommon frame and a spring connected to one of said slides so as to beput under tension by the operation of the drawer.

3. In a cash-register, the combination with a series of keys, of akey-coupler cooperating with said keys, a slide arranged to engage saidcoupler and draw it down after it has been elevated, a cash-drawer and aspring connected to said slide and arranged to be put under tension bythe movements of said drawer.

4. In a cash-register, the combination with a series of keys, of a framecommon to said keys, a spring for drawing said frame down after it hasbeen elevated, a cash-drawer and a series of rolling devices arranged tobe operated by the cash-drawer for putting the spring under tension.

5. In a cash-register, the combination with a series of keys, of akey-coupler, a cashdrawer, a frame having a channel formedtherein,rolling devices in said channel, means foroperating said rollingdevices by the movement of the cash-drawer and a coupler-actuatingspring arranged to be put under tension by said rolling devices.

6. In a cash-register, the combination with a series of keys, of akey-coupler, a cashdrawcr, a frame having a channel formed therein, aslide mounted in the channel and arranged to engage the coupler, anotherslide mounted in the. channel and arranged to be engaged by thecash-drawer, rolling devices mounted in the channel between the slides,and a spring connected to the coupler-slide.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

THOMAS OARNEY.

lVitnesses:

IRA BERKSTRESSER, ALVAN MAOAULEY.

